Sanitary seat cover



Jan. 16, 1923..

L. L; FURAN'.

SANITARY SEAT COVER.

FILED SEPT. 22, 192l.

2.55%, I P v Lars L F urnw,

W 28 1 mm 30' ,8: m nll Patented Jan. 16, 1923.

UNITE-D" STATES LABS L. FURAN, ommar nrvnn FALLS, INNESOTA.

a SANITARY SEAT COVER.

Application filedsepte ruber 22, 1921. Serial No. 502,393.

ments in Sanitary Seat Covers, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates. generallyto seat covers, and more particularly to a sanitary seat cover in which the primary object is to make provision for automatically opening and closing in a manner and for a pur:

pose which will be apparent from the following description and by reference to the accompanying drawing.

In'the drawing, which forms part of this specification, Figure l is a top plan view of my im provements, I v I a Figure 2 is a side View thereof, 7 Figure 3 is a top plan view ofthe support and closure members with the seatboardremoved showing the cover sect ons-open, and: Figure 4 1s a detail vert cal sectiontaken on line 44 of Figure 2. v p p 7 Referring now to these figures, the seat board 10 proposed by my present invention has the usual opening 11 and is provided centrally of its front portion with a depending bracket 12 to the lower end'of which the forward end of a flexible chain or other connection 13 isattached. The upper end of this bracket has divergent arms 14 securely fastened by screws and the like 15 tothe undersurface of the seat board, the rear portion of the latter of which has a trans-' versely disposed bracing strap 16 secured thereto with ends 17 depending at the op.- posite sides of the seat board.

The depending ends 17 of the seat board strap 16 are pivotally connected as at 18 to connecting members or brackets 19 upstanding at the rear side portions of a seat board support generally indicated at 20 and hav ing an opening 21 below the'opening 11 of the seatboard 10. The seat board swings vertically with respect to the support 20 on the pivots 1S, and the support is held in proper position in use by hinging the same through pivots 20 to the connecting members or brackets 19,, the latter having lower attaching extensions 22.

The support 20 has across its forward portion, below the forward portion of the seat board 10 a transversely disposed rest bar 23 against which the forward portion of the seat board 10 engages inthe lower position of the latter, and this rest bar is provided at a central point with a transverse opening 24, andwith a guide roller 25 adjacent to the forward end of the opening 24 adapted to 1,442,142 PATENT QFFICE;

receive the flexible chain or connection 13;

thereover in movable relation. This chain or connection 13 extends rearwardly through the "opening24t of the rest bar and its rear end connects with the central portion of. a .cover actuating bar 26 having rearwardly;

diverging arms provided with longitudinal slots 27 through which slots upstand a pair of, pins-28. These pins are fixed to and up;

stand fI'OHIthG swinging halves or sections 29 and 30 of the cover, which sections or halves are pivoted at their forward'ends at 31 upon pivot pins upstanding from the support 20 so that they swing laterally and horizontally in the same plane toward and away from one another; 7 i

The outer ends of the arms of; thecover actuating bar 26 have upstanding apertured lugs 32 which receive'the forward hook ends, of a pair ofparallelcoil springs 33. The

rear ends-of these springs are secured to pins" 34 upstanding from the rear portion of-the support 20 :and it is thusiobviou's that the springs 33 control the normal position of the parts and serve to shift the actuating;

bar 26 rear-wardly whereby to. hold the sections 29 and30 of the coverin their inner contacting and effective position shown in Fi ure 1., a v

11 account of the springs 33 the seat board '10 is thus held in the forward upwardly inclined position shown in Figure 2 by virtue of the attachment of the flexible connection 13 with the lowerend of the seat board bracket 12, the seat'board being thus spaced above-the support20 and its parts;

1 When however the seat board 10 is lowered, its bracket 12 upon moving downwardly, draws the flexible connection 13 forwardly and downwardly around the roller, 25 and thus shifts the seat actuating bar 26 27 so that the sections 29 and soar the cover will be swung away from one'another to the dotted line position of Figure 3 so as to uncover the opening 21 of the support 20. The

extent of this movement is preferably such in practice as to permit the forward portion of the seat board 10 to rest upon the rest bar 23 when the cover is entirely open.

It is obvious from the foregoing that my invention promotes; an arrangement which is highly desirable from a sanitary standpoint as well as one which is pecuharly er fective in practice by virtue of the fact that the opening and closing movements of the cover are accomplished automatically and will not fail from thoughtlessness as is so often the case where manual manipulation is depended upon.

. I claim:

1. A device of the character described includingmeans forming a seat board support having a rest bar at its forward portion and laterally spaced pivot forming members at the rear of said rest bar, and an opening, a pair of laterally and horizontally swinging cover sections pivoted at their forward portions on the said. pivot forming members and shi'ftable' to uncover the opening of said support and having upstanding pins, an actuating bar having inclined longitudinally slotted arms through the slots of which said upstanding pins project, springsattached at their forward ends to the outer ends of said arms and anchored at their rear ends to the rear portion of the support,"afflexible connection attached at its rear endcentrally of the said actuating bar and projecting forwardly through a guide opening of the rest bar, and a seat board, having an opening, pivot'ally connected at-its rear portion to the rear portion of said support and having at its forward portion a depending bracket to the lower end of which the forward end of said flexible connection is attached.

2. A device of the character described including means forming a seat board support and having an opening, a pair of laterally and horizontally swinging cover sections pivoted on said support tocover and uncover itsopening having upstanding pins,

an-actuating member 111 one piece having said depending bracket and at the opposite end with the said actuating bar to move the latter in the opposite direction.

3. A device of the characterdescribed in-, eluding means forming a seat boardsupport and having an opening and a central forward roller, a seat board pivoted to the said support to swing vertically with respect theretoand having an opening above the opening of the support and a bracket depending forwardly of said roller, cover forming means shiftable on the support and between the same and the seat board and movable to cover and uncover the opening of the former, spring means normally coni trolling the cover forming means to hold the latter in closed position, and cover actuat ing means to shift the coverto open po'sition when the seat board is depressed including a single member operatively connectedto the cover and having a flexible connection depending over the roller and secured to said bracket. 7

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

LAR'S L. FURAN. 

